Decolonisation of Africa
1952–1980 · Event
Wave of African states gaining independence from European colonial rule, especially the 1960 'Year of Africa' when 17 states became independent.
On these timelines: The Decolonisation of Africa, Master, Sub-Saharan Africa, British Empire
More from The Decolonisation of Africa
- Ghanaian independence (1957)
- Congo Crisis / Assassination of Lumumba (1960)
- The Organisation of African Unity founded (1963)
- Wind of Change speech (1960)
- Portugal's African empire ends (1975)
Around 1952
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)